Post a website, entertain me!

Pretty neat use of flash here:
http://angiogenesis.amgen.com/

Quite possibly the coolest apartment on the planet:

Article in Wired Magazine
Article in the New York Times

I love spontaneous creative writing in Amazon reviews.

Indignant wrote:

I chenck this site out just about every day.
http://www.kindertrauma.com

(edit) it was timing out, but now I can connect. Scary.

I check this site out just about every day.
http://www.kindertrauma.com

www.wa007.com

I visit this site every year or so because it is so well done.

plus.. masumi max.... hmmmm.... good interwebicles ....

I was skeptical at first, but that is a might fine advertisement.

Holy crap! They are on the very street I live on.

Edwin wrote:

Holy crap! They are on the very street I live on.

And that is too cool!!!!!

inspiringsn wrote:

I was skeptical at first, but that is a might fine advertisement.

Not sure if this was aimed at me - but I am not advertising wa007 - I honestly go to the site every few months to check it out.
I have my windows 7 theme set with all of the wa007 desktop image as a matter-o-fact.

You can even look at their retro site over the years to see how they have grown.

It make me think that FLASH is the real future of client-server tech.

Edxactly wrote:
inspiringsn wrote:

I was skeptical at first, but that is a might fine advertisement.

Not sure if this was aimed at me - but I am not advertising wa007 - I honestly go to the site every few months to check it out.
I have my windows 7 theme set with all of the wa007 desktop image as a matter-o-fact.

You can even look at their retro site over the years to see how they have grown.

It make me think that FLASH is the real future of client-server tech.

I was actually referring to the manliest car being advertised on Craigslist.

Wow - that is the best ad ever.

That's liable to earn you a Burmese-roundhouse-sphincter-kick with a follow up three fingered eye-jab.

This made the ad.

Edxactly wrote:
inspiringsn wrote:

I was skeptical at first, but that is a might fine advertisement.

Not sure if this was aimed at me - but I am not advertising wa007 - I honestly go to the site every few months to check it out.
I have my windows 7 theme set with all of the wa007 desktop image as a matter-o-fact.

You can even look at their retro site over the years to see how they have grown.

It make me think that FLASH is the real future of client-server tech.

Maybe it's just the early hour or my relative ill health at the moment, but that site seemed far too busy for me.

wordsmythe wrote:

Maybe it's just the early hour or my relative ill health at the moment, but that site seemed far too busy for me.

Not to mention they broke rule #1: no splash screens. If you can't tell me what you're about on the front page, then you're not trying hard enough.

Honestly, it's pretty, but what I take away from this site is "we're going to make designs that frustrate your current customers who are looking for help, and scare away future customers who are just looking for information on whether you're capable of helping them solve their needs."

I spent 4 minutes browsing around the site and can't even figure out anything about their services.

Oh! Hah, I just happened to mouse over one of the numbers (02 03 04 05 06) and those are the menu bar? WTF?

FAIL.

It's all what you like I guess.
If you look at the work they have done they are not a small potatoes group.

Edxactly wrote:

It's all what you like I guess.
If you look at the work they have done they are not a small potatoes group.

I guess it depends on what you're attempting to do.

Were I to hire a web site designer, I would want them to communicate information about what I'm trying to sell/distribute/whatever. Of course you want to grab people's attention, but first impressions are not just about flashiness, but resonating with the person. As a consumer, when I go to a company's web site, I'm probably already looking for something, and have a general idea of what I want to accomplish. Their site tells me none of those things.

If you're Coca-Cola, and people already know you, and you just want to do something flashy to stay in people's minds, this company's probably great. If you're an up-and-coming company with a service that you want people to find, their stuff would be distracting and counterproductive.

Personally if I was looking for web design, I'd start a search, and open a bunch of tabs for various potential companies I found. I'd close this tab immediately 'cause I can't tell what actual services they offer, much less how much it would cost me.

On the form vs. function scale, they've foregone all function for form.

(Not to say it isn't a pretty and cool site; just that it's bad "advertising" for a web design company. If it's the future of flash, it's even worse than the now of flash as far as signal-vs-noise goes. People have done lots of cool things with flash, but the majority of the flash on the internet is about getting in the way of what I'm trying to do -- ads, splash screens, etc. -- not providing value in and of itself.)

http://www.3framemovies.com/

Plots seem a whole lot more pointless when you whittle them down to 3 frames. =)

maria55 wrote:

Check this site and then tell me what you think about this.

I think it's spam.

Entertainment stuff? That's my favorite kind!

Damn pretty skins and cases for your DS/DSi/PSP/PS2 etc.

http://www.my-wasabi.com/

A startling re-examination of Ewok culture by two ethnographers.

"Yub jub" means "devour the weak"

Here's an excerpt:

The Ewok celebratory phraseology has been grossly misrepresented in Alliance literature: The famous victory chant yub nub/yub nub eee chop yub nub translates not as "freedom/we have freedom" but rather as "eat them/we shall eat them"; elu mali ooloo/emi watu gravo is not "honor the fallen/toast their memory" but "defile their remains/pass water upon their graves"; and the oft-heard salutation yub jub actually translates to "devour the weak."
DSGamer wrote:

I'm not sure what this would fall under, so I'm posting it here.

Would-be robber not much of a ninja, but he manages a getaway

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/wouldbe_robber_not_much_of_a_n.html

The man disappeared into the neighborhood, but police don't think he used any special techniques to escape.

"He could have jumped into a car," said Detective Mary Wheat, a police spokeswoman.

Definitely Post A News Story

Thanks. Moved there.